You installed Amarok from my RPMs and can’t play some files ? Here is the fix…

My two previous RPMs packages of Amarok (1.4.1 and 1.4.2beta1) for Mandriva 2006 were not able to play some files because of their file format. In a previous comment, Promeneur tell us that my 1.4.1 package was not able to play Mpeg2 files.

I myself experienced a similar problem: both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2beta1 were not able to play any of my Flac files. Apart the “There is no audio channel!” error message, I had no other information to help me track the bug.

Then I remembered that I was using PFL RPMs beside official Mandriva ones. So I updated plf-non-free and plf-free repositories. So I installed all packages whose name followed the “xine-something-1.1.1” pattern. Just after that Amarok was playing Flac files as expected !

5 Responses to “You installed Amarok from my RPMs and can’t play some files ? Here is the fix…”


  1. 1 robert marshall

    Thanks for that pointer, I spent some time trying to wonder why wine should affect the playing of flac’s and then the penny dropped - xine-something-1.1.1

  2. 2 kev

    oups… What a confusing typo ! Sorry for this mistake. I’ve fixed the post. Thanks Robert.

  3. 3 BOUCHEZ

    Je n’entends plus aucuns son de mon ordinateur,plus de musiques,plus de commentaire ,rien pourriez vous me venir en aide rapidement….merci et me dire que dois télécharger pour que tout rentre dans l’ordre.
    Bien à Vous et merci

  1. 1 Amarok 1.4.2 final for Mandriva 2006 at Coolkevmen
  2. 2 Amarok 1.4.2-beta1 for Mandriva 2006 at Coolkevmen

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